Even after years of development, there is still more to do on sendmail. In particular, emerging standards are pushing sendmail in new directions. This talk will discuss some of the directions that sendmail is likely to go in the coming years. The talk will include thoughts about how both new standards and the hybrid company model behind Sendmail, Inc. will drive sendmail development.

Eric Allman was the original author of sendmail. He is currently the Founder and Chief Technology officer if Sendmail, Inc. He was the Chief Programmer on the INGRES database management project and an early contributer to the Unix effort at Berkeley, authoring syslog, tset, the -me troff macros, and trek. He received his M.S. in Computer Science from U. C. Berkeley in 1980. He designed database user and application interfaces at Britton Lee (later Sharebase), and contributed to the Ring Array Processor project for neural-network-based speech recognition at the International Computer Science Institute. He was also Chief Technical Officer at InReference, Inc. He co-authored the ``C Advisor'' column for Unix Review magazine for several years and was a member of the Board of Directors of USENIX Association. Eric has been accused of working incessantly, enjoys writing with fountain pens, and collects wines which he stashes in the cellar of the house that he shares with Kirk McKusick, his partner of 20-and-some-odd years.